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Michael Novakhov's favorite articles on Inoreader Experts see Putin's latest anti-LGBTQ law as another attempt to control Russians posted at 12:50:44 UTC via npr.org Activists attend a rally as they mark World Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia in Saint Petersburg on May 17, 2019. Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin intensified his crackdown on LGBTQ people earlier this month when he signed new legislation making it illegal to spread "LGBT propaganda." Experts see this latest move as a continuation of the government's attempt to control the population and shut out what it deems "non-traditional" values. In 2013, Russia passed a law banning the "propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia among minors." The new law expands upon that, to include adults as well. "It also expands the kind of venues in which this propaganda is imagined to be taking place, like on television and advertising, streaming servi
